Category Manager (Hair care)

GUARDIAN HEALTH & BEAUTY; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

GUARDIAN HEALTH & BEAUTY is seeking a Category Manager to spearhead strategic category development and implementation. The ideal candidate will enhance sales and profitability through strategic market analysis, inventory management, and promotional initiatives. Excellent analytical, communication, and negotiation skills are essential, along with experience in a retail or FMCG environment. Benefits include team discounts, subsidized medical and dental care, and career advancement opportunities.

Benefits

Team Member Discount

Subsidized Medical and Dental Benefits

Training Opportunities

Career Advancement

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in retail or FMCG sector.
• Knowledge of merchandising and marketing.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing strategic plans for categories.
• Managing inventory and promotional plans.
• Building retailer/supplier relationships.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Negotiation Skills

Marketing Skills

Job description

About Us

Established in 1972, Guardian Health & Beauty is Singapore’s Number 1 Health and Beauty retailer. With more than 124 stores nation-wide, it retails a comprehensive range of health & beauty products. Guardian has evolved from its pharmacy roots to a holistic one-stop solution for customers’ health and beauty needs. It continues to expand its products and service range to meet the redefinition of beauty by today’s customers – where health meets beauty.

With a strong health heritage, it has the largest network of award-winning pharmacists and a wide selection of health products. Professional services such as patient-care counselling, dispensary services, beauty and personal care solutions are offered at stores as a convenient one-stop for health and beauty. Guardian also operates its online store with more than 9,000 products available and offers the “Click & Collect” services. For more information, please visit www.guardian.com.sg. Follow Guardian Health & Beauty on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Youtube and TikTok.

Guardian Health & Beauty is a Progressive Wage (PW) mark accredited company.

Role Purpose

To develop and implement strategic plans for assigned categories within the framework of a disciplined category management business process so as to achieve company’s financial goals and objectives, improve market share, customer satisfaction and productivity performance measures for the company

Responsibilities

• Drive and achieve category sales, gross profit, income goals and objectives of assigned categories through monitoring trends within the market segments; developing strategies to grow the market share of assigned categories; and to plan strategies to counter competition.
• Develop and implement a good inventory management process so that there is an optimum product mix that focuses on customers’ needs and the process achieves shrinkage reduction objective.
• Develop and implement promotional plans that bring excitement and incremental sales to the stores.
• Develop and implement placement and planogram strategies that improve category turnover and positively influence customer shopping behavior.
• Oversees the implementation of category strategies as well as the development of the private label or house brand products.
• Ability to build strong relationships with business partners and is well-informed of consumer, market and industry trends.
• Works in a dynamic environment were expected to regularly review market and industry trends to drive appeal of merchandise mix to target customers.
• Develop and implement a competitive pricing strategy that delivers value to our customers.
• Establish collaborative retailer / supplier relationships to maximize income/ terms / discounts to improve sales and profitability of category.
• To develop Monthly Category Analysis Report of the assigned categories.
• Manage and evaluate promotion effectiveness to achieve maximum profitability for the categories.

About You

• Possesses relevant experience, ideally within the retail or FMCG sector.
• Experience in a customer-focused industry, possessing expertise in merchandising, marketing, and entrepreneurial skills.
• Well-versed in industry trends and market dynamics, with excellent presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal abilities.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and generate valuable insights.
• Driven and highly adaptable with a collaborative mindset.
• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized, decisive, determined, and persistent individual.

Benefits

• Team Member Discount
• Subsidized Medical and Dental Benefits
• Training Opportunities
• Career Advancement

Working Location: Tampines North